Will nextbox use blueray?

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joeorc said:

HanzoTheRazor said:
@heedstone

"blu-ray will be superceded by the time the next gen comes around anyway."

This one made me laugh! What rock do u live under, dude? BD is on fire! Sales are increasing at an amazing speed. It reached mass adoption last year and is well on it's way to replace DVD. In 3 years time we will have a BD market that will be very close to complete market share of all physical media sales.

Funny, it seems like it's always the people who have never bought films on physical media and file share etc, etc their movies instead who are against physical media and claim that DDL will take over next. I wanna know how having only DDL would be more benificial, cause I cannot see how. I do know it would give companies more control over us consumers and give us less choice over all. BOTH WILL EVENTUALLY CO-EXIST. Is this so hard to see?

It is worth mentioning that Blu-ray sold more in these relatively slow two first months of the year than digital downloads did in the whole of 2009 ($199 million, including both standard-definition and high-definition, according to Screen Digest). In spite of all the continuous hype from tech sites and web pundits about the impending digital domination and the disc's demise, the public seems to see much more value in a movie when it comes on a high-quality physical support with top-notch video, audio and extras than on a downloaded video file.

Home Media Magazine

It doesn't count the whole of the market. For example 42% of Netflix subscribers streamed video on demand for at least 15 minutes in 2009. Which means of the 9.6% of U.S. households with Netflix about 4% of them did video on demand through that service. These numbers aren't counted at all towards that $200 revenue figure. Nor does it count advertising supported streaming on Youtube and Hulu and other sites. In addition to this, Porn sites are moving to an on demand model which is probably not counted either. It probably only counts direct downloads through various sites like iTunes and not the Live services where Microsoft/Sony doesn't release any numbers either.